KOLKATA: A cyclonic storm brewing in the Bay of Bengal is likely to cause heavy to very heavy rain, along with gusty wind, in various districts of south Bengal during the weekend, the Met department said on Thursday. The ...
3 December 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: The East Coast Railway on Thursday said it has cancelled operation of 95 trains for three days from Thursday in the wake of predictions of a cyclonic storm hitting the Odisha coast. As a precautionary measure for the ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: Odisha will have maximum impact of cyclone Jawad irrespective of its place of landfall, India Meteorological Department (IMD) director general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said even as weathermen still wait for more clarity on probable path of the impending storm ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: After the Higher Secondary council asked state board schools to hold offline pre-boards tests for Class XII by year-end, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education on Wednesday directed similar tests be held for for Class X between December ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: East-West Metro’s Sealdah extension project is now armed with the crucial international safety clearance. The French safety assessor, Certifier, has approved the signal and other systems, paving the way for Metro Railway to apply for inspection by the ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaGUWAHATI: Despite the lean phase of the industry caused by the pandemic, IIT-Guwahati clinched the highest ever package in its campus placement history on Wednesday when an MTech student got an international offer for Rs 2 crore per annum ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city is likely to receive heavy rain on Sunday under the impact of a weather system that is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by Friday. Apart from Jhargram and East and West Midnapore, the Met ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaGUWAHATI: Northeastern states are unlikely to experience extreme cold this winter. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued forecasts of normal or above normal temperature in the northeastern states this winter season, counted from December 1 till February-end. ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Covid has forced several private hospitals, which had been planning an expansion, to rush back to drawing boards and revise their projects. While for some, the projects have been delayed, others have decided to go ahead with a ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Three persons died in an explosion that rocked Mohanpur locality of Satgachia in South 24 Parganas on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Asim Mondal (54), his aunt Kakoli Middhe (52) and Atithi Hakder (48), an employee. ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A city court, completing a Pocso trial in just four months, has sentenced a 39-year-old man to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting his minor stepdaughter repeatedly for three years. It was the gutsy15-year-old girl who had ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued an alert for the formation of Cyclone Jawad, which may hit the coasts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on December 4 morning. The cyclone is likely to trigger heavy to ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The alarm over the variant of concern that has led to India declaring fresh measures to shield itself from the virus has left travellers from countries that have been labelled ‘at-risk’, as well as others, confused. Travellers from ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Calcutta High Court has directed the state election commission (SEC) and the Bengal government to file affidavits stating their plans to hold civic polls other than in Kolkata by Monday (December 6), when the court takes up the ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik here on Wednesday asked officials to ensure everyone takes the possible spread of new strain of Covid virus ‘Omicron’ seriously and adhere to protocol to check its possible spread. “This new wave of Covid ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that a survey for construction of a new line between Puri and Konark (33km) has been completed and the cost of the project has been assessed as Rs 725.78 ...
2 December 2021 Times of IndiaNODAKHALI: Three persons were killed and as many injured in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit in Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, the police said. The explosion occurred around 8am at a two-storey house that ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The ruling TMC will tide over the challenges that come its way during the upcoming KMC polls by using the momentum of its victory in assembly elections, said former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim, while sharing his vision for ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The government’s decision to bring a bill to regulate cryptocurrency this winter session of Parliament has forced many investors in crypto currencies to exit their positions despite incurring big losses. Several Kolkatans, including college-goers, invest in crypto currencies ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The busy Park Street Flyover on JL Nehru Road will remain shut this weekend for 56 hours in order to allow a necessary load test of the structure. The shut down — effective between 10pm on December 3 ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: With traffic volume swelling, Kolkata Police has reintroduced its pre-Covid bicycle ban on several city roads. A recent notification by Kolkata Police commissioner Soumen Mitra orders full or partial banning of cycling on 71 thoroughfares and bridges in ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A 27-year-old man — allegedly in an inebriated condition — had a close shave as he survived with minor injuries despite falling from the rooftop of a four-storey building at Dover Terrace near Gariahat, where he lived. He ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Kolkata may receive light to moderate showers this weekend under the impact of a cyclonic storm that is now brewing over the Andaman Sea. Other areas of south Bengal may receive heavy to very heavy showers, say weathermen. ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: For the first time since the pandemic broke out, state board schools are set to conduct an offline exam. The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education on Tuesday issued a notice, asking all its schools to conduct ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bliss to anxiety and then panic before it culminated in delight. Thousands of businesses in the central tourist district encompassing Marquis Street, Sudder Street, Free School Street, Lindsay Street and New Market experienced a yo-yo of emotions for ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Labs across the city that conducts Covid-19 tests are set to be more stringent in taking down the travel history of the person whose samples will undergo the test. This stricter vigil comes in the wake of the ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Conventional ideas of visitation rights in child custody cases are changing in Bengal, with more instances of courts granting “weekend” and “vacation” rights to the parent who doesn’t have primary custody, in keeping with modern notions of children’s ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The city airport has kept all safety measures ready ahead of arrival of passengers from Singapore at 9.40pm on Wednesday. Among the measures are, six swab collection counters, at least 6 hours’ waiting time for report collection, 350-seat ...
1 December 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday said they have successfully contained Maoist resurgence in Malkangiri and Koraput districts, which were once infamous for being the hotbeds of left-wing extremism (LWE). The BSF, on the eve of its ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: As many as 470 of the 853 licenses temporarily suspended this month, which translates to around 55%, are those drivers and bikers who threw caution to the wind and kept moving even when on the phone. Around 255 ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday conducted an aerial drone surveillance in the AK block of Salt Lake as part of their dengue prevention drive and checked whether there was any accumulation of water on vacant plots ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: When prices of vegetables in city markets have started dipping, tomatoes are pinching the pockets. Across the retail markets, the tomatoes are selling at Rs 80-Rs 100 a kg. Tomato is no more a typical winter vegetable, it ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Work for dismantling Vivekananda Road or Posta flyover has got stuck mid-way with the owner of a multi-storied building located near Girish Park has moved Calcutta high court, stating that the balcony of the building should not be ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A resident of Survey Park police station area, Mukesh Shaw, was arrested for allegedly harassing and threatening actor Arunima Ghosh. Police sources said this is the third time that Shaw has been arrested for stalking the actor. He ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A Class IX student of a reputable English-medium school in Sodepur was injured after a group of armed youths attacked him near the school on Monday afternoon. Four persons have been arrested and cops seized a firearm from ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Monday called CM Mamata Banerjee the entire opposition's "strongest and most credible and experienced leader", who was capable of taking the BJP head-on, as it sought a larger space for itself in national politics. ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: On-arrival RT-PCR tests and quarantine even if testing negative for flyers from Dhaka, Singapore and London and institutional quarantine for those testing positive, random testing and a strict watch on each international flyer's travel history are some of ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The marks after evaluation of ICSE semester-I papers could not be uploaded on Monday because of a server glitch. Around 7.30pm, the CISCE sent a circular to school principals and asked them to close the evaluation centres for ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Thirty-seven years ago, Ganu Mondal (Bauri) had disappeared from her home in Jharkhand's Chorabasti village only to surface near Bakkhali beach in Bengal some 450km away on a fiercely rainy night. She had no memory of where she ...
30 November 2021 Times of IndiaMALDA: Two persons travelling on a motorcycle were killed after their two-wheeler collided head-on with a truck in West Bengal's Malda district, police said on Monday. The accident occurred at around 8 pm on Sunday when their motorcycle was ...
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